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The Men's Health Home Workout Bible: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Burning Fat and Building Muscle
A comprehensive guide to effective strength training at home offers coverage of a range of fitness equipment and experience levels and provides consumer tips for expanding a home gym.
434 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2002
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February 4, 2010
These are the only resistance training exercises I know. They work very well. Almost immediate results. Turned my flat chest into steel-plated breasts.
September 30, 2020
The equipment purchasing tips and workout plans are very valuable, and are things I’ll continue to reference. The exercise pictures and descriptions are also well done, although there just aren’t enough of them. In the end, I’m unconvinced that, for my situation, working out at home is more efficient or effective than going to a well equipped gym.
September 19, 2017
Great exercises but nothing you won't find now in internet
February 26, 2020
Thus this book really helps for people who is going gym for the first time
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 11, 2016
I skimmed for general advice on exercising, not for guidance on specific exercises. Seems like it'd be a good reference for specific exercises; it has many photos and instructions.
Notes
Give muscles a day to recover after a workout. On days after workouts, work other muscles, or relax.
Intermediate and advanced exercises need to exercise at least 40 minutes 3 to 4 days per week.
Aerobic (cardio) exercise (running, cycling, swimming, etc.) is unnecessary. Anaerobic exercise (weights, sports) is fine alternative. But internal interval training, a form of aerobic, is good. This is short bursts of intense work followed by low intensity movement. Examples: running, cycling, wrote something, growing, swimming, stair climbing.
Muscle- and strength-building workouts work well in segments of 3 weeks of 3 days per week training.
If training for strength, use weights close to your maximums, which means fewer reps (e.g., 5 sets of 5 reps, 8 sets of 3, 10 sets of 1). If packing on muscle, use lighter weights and do 2-3 sets of 8-12 reps.
When you no longer see improvements from one workout to next (usually after 3 to 6 weeks; see your logs), change your routine.
Don't exercise sore muscles; it causes more damage.
If you do weights and cardio in the same work out, do weights first.
Intensity is more important than volume (frequency). Work each muscle group – major or minor – just once a week. Determine recovery time by comparing the log entries from one workout to next.
Notes
Give muscles a day to recover after a workout. On days after workouts, work other muscles, or relax.
Intermediate and advanced exercises need to exercise at least 40 minutes 3 to 4 days per week.
Aerobic (cardio) exercise (running, cycling, swimming, etc.) is unnecessary. Anaerobic exercise (weights, sports) is fine alternative. But internal interval training, a form of aerobic, is good. This is short bursts of intense work followed by low intensity movement. Examples: running, cycling, wrote something, growing, swimming, stair climbing.
Muscle- and strength-building workouts work well in segments of 3 weeks of 3 days per week training.
If training for strength, use weights close to your maximums, which means fewer reps (e.g., 5 sets of 5 reps, 8 sets of 3, 10 sets of 1). If packing on muscle, use lighter weights and do 2-3 sets of 8-12 reps.
When you no longer see improvements from one workout to next (usually after 3 to 6 weeks; see your logs), change your routine.
Don't exercise sore muscles; it causes more damage.
If you do weights and cardio in the same work out, do weights first.
Intensity is more important than volume (frequency). Work each muscle group – major or minor – just once a week. Determine recovery time by comparing the log entries from one workout to next.
May 26, 2009
This book has saved me literally hundreds of dollars. I save $29/mo by not working out in my home gym instead of not working out at a gym I have a membership to. This book has a lot of dumbbell exercises and other things I don't do.
November 25, 2008
Men's Health Home Workout Bible: by Lou Schuler (2002)
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